cal Association, of which he was president in 1893. Dr. Angell
was a charter member of the American Academy at Rome. For many years he
was also Regent of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He was
always a leader in the Congregational Church and presided at the
International Congregational Council which met in Boston in September,
1899. This body was composed of delegates from all parts of the world
and represented the scholastic and ecclesiastical organization of the
church in the persons of its most distinguished members.

All through his career, Dr. Angell gave evidence of certain
characteristics which had definite effects upon his policy as President.
Professor Charles H. Cooley, '87, has characterized the especial
qualities which made for his success as "his faith and his
adaptability." Dr. Angell always believed in the tendency of the right
to prevail, and was willing to wait with a "masterly inactivity,"
avoiding too much injudicious assistance. He was always able to maintain
a broad and comprehensive view, the attitude of the administrator, and
was faithful in his belief in the Higher Power which guides the destiny
of men--and universities. His diplomatic genius, the combination of
teacher and man of the world, enabled him to keep in close and
sympathetic touch, not only with the student life about him, but also
with the difficult problems of an ever-growing Faculty. He always showed
himself surprisingly shrewd, yet withal charitable, in his judgments of
men and their character, a qualification which enabled him to follow a
_laissez-faire_ policy until the proper time. Often his penetration and
insight, in analyses of current problems and questions, which might be
supposed not to interest so particularly a man of his years, surprised
his young associates and gave evidence of the wonderful vitality, the
spirit of youth, which lived within him.

Ann Arbor was long accustomed to his familiar figure on his invariable
morning constitutional, walking with an elastic, springy step and a
ruddy freshness in his complexion which almost belied his gray hairs and
his well-known age. He passed few blocks without a word to some one, for
a simple, kindly interest in those about him was one of his chief
characteristics. It was his essential democracy which kept him for so
many years in personal relations with his students, an interest which
never flagged until the last, and which was shown by the close track
which he al